I
Believe in You
Matthew
28:16-20
I
was watching a football game. It is first and goal. The little guy who is
getting to carry the ball is facing nearly everyone on the other team and they
outweigh him by 100 to 150 pounds a peace. He is not going very far after the
snap. His only hope is that when he falls he will fall forward.
I
our lives we often face impossible odds. The things lined up against us seem
huge and we are so small. We have tried and failed so many times it feels useless
to even try again. I do not even need to mention them you thinking about them
already.
The
11 disciples felt that way, only 3 years of being taught by Jesus and Jesus
tells them to go into all the world and make disciples. A truly daunting task.
Yet Jesus believed in them. No backup plan and no second string. Jesus believed
in them and they changed the world.
1.
Defeat will come
a. bad habits, an addiction, or some other sin
b. Physical illness, disability, financial troubles, relationships
c. a little guy asked to carry the ball into 1000’s of pound of hostile beef.
d.in our life, in our church, in our community, even in our nation
a. bad habits, an addiction, or some other sin
b. Physical illness, disability, financial troubles, relationships
c. a little guy asked to carry the ball into 1000’s of pound of hostile beef.
d.in our life, in our church, in our community, even in our nation
God
believes in you
a. 1 John 3:1-3 (NIV2011)
1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
a. 1 John 3:1-3 (NIV2011)
1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
2.
a. Bart Star
b. John 3:16 John 3:16 (NIV2011)
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
c. go into all the world
a. Bart Star
b. John 3:16 John 3:16 (NIV2011)
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
c. go into all the world
3.
Victory will come
a. you may not be able to run 90 yards maybe all you can do is fall forward
a. you may not be able to run 90 yards maybe all you can do is fall forward
b. phil3:13 Philippians 3:13-14
(NIV2011)
13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
c. Romans 8:31 Romans 8:31 (NIV2011)
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
c. Romans 8:31 Romans 8:31 (NIV2011)
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
d. God is able
e. Romans 14:4 Romans 14:4 (NIV2011)
4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
f. Heb 7:25 Hebrews 7:25 (NIV2011)
25 Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
25 Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
g. Phil 1:6Philippians 1:6 (NIV2011)
6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
h. 2 Tim 1:12 2 Timothy 1:12 (NIV2011)
12 That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.
12 That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.
4.
God believes in you and I believe in you
a. you can change your life and overcome things that hold you back
a. you can change your life and overcome things that hold you back
b.
we can change our church and make it grow and carry out the work of God.
c.
dare to try, dare to face impossible odds, dare to fall forward. For Jesus
believes in you.
Matthew
28:16-20 (NIV2011)
16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go.
17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.
18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go.
17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.
18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
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